Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in data center architectures and components.
• Experience as a Technical Sales Engineer in a cloud computing environment or in a customer-facing role.
• Experience in one of the following: cloud migration, disaster recovery, application/servers assessment, or discovery.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in industry or in a specialist area of technology.
• Experience in advanced areas of networking, including Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks, and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
• Experience with deployment methodologies and technologies (e.g., CI/CD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms and technical concepts such as big data, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and related industry topics.
• Ability to work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an entrepreneurial team, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Customer Engineer, you will work with the Sales team to introduce Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective, existing customers, and partners to understand the power of Google Cloud to develop creative cloud solutions, architectures to solve their business challenges, and problem-solve any potential technical roadblocks.

In this role, you may be required to travel.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide recommend migration strategies, enterprise architectures, migration tools, and cloud infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using Google Cloud.
• Assist in challenging and inspiring customers and peers to solve difficult problems, with ambitious and novel solutions leveraging a sophisticated set of technical competences.
• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Manage the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.